I still believe that traditional Old Testament criticism has had the effect of killing the Old Testament for the church This little tome can hardly reverse that but it is meant as an exercise in reading the Old Testament for fun & profit As my mother-in-law used to say ' It's different anyway' & maybe it will help Most of what I do in the following pages involves discussing examples of Old Testament narratives I have tried to select examples from a broad range of possibilities By the way I assume that you have the biblical text handy in order to carry on your ' Berean' work Dale Ralph Davis